A millennial record of environmental change in peat deposits from the Misten bog (East Belgium)

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• 作者：Fran?ois De Vleeschouwer ; Anna Pazdur ; C¨¦dric Luthers ; Maurice Streel ; Dmitri Mauquoy ; C¨¦cile Wastiaux ; Ga?l Le Roux ; Robert Moschen ; Maarten Blaauw ; Jacek Pawlyta ; Jarek Sikorski ; Natalia Piotrowska
• 刊名：Quaternary International
• 出版年：2012
• 出版时间：3 August, 2012
• 年：2012
• 卷：268
• 期：Complete
• 页码：44-57
• 全文大小：1065 K

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In this study, palaeoenvironmental changes recorded in the top metre of a peat profile (Misten bog, East Belgium) were investigated using a multiproxy approach. Proxies include bulk density, Ti and Si content, pollen, macrofossils, ¦Ä¹³C on specific Sphagnum stems, and ¦Ä¹³C-¦Ä¹⁸O on Sphagnum leaves. A high-resolution chronology was generated using ²¹⁰Pb measurements and 22 ¹⁴C AMS dates on carefully selected Sphagnum macrofossils. ¦Ä¹³C only records large change in mire surface wetness. This is partly due to the fact that the core was taken from the edge of a hummock, which may make it difficult to track small isotopic changes. The ¦Ä¹³C signal seems to be dependent upon the Sphagnum species composition. For example, a change between Sphagnum section Cuspidata towards Sphagnum imbricatum causes a significant drop in the ¦Ä¹³C values. On the whole, the C and O isotopes record two shallow pool phases during the 8th-9th and the 13th centuries. Pollen and atmospheric soil dust (ASD) fluxes records increased human occupation in the area. There may be some climatic signals in the ASD flux, but they are difficult to decipher from the increasing human impact (land clearance, agriculture) during the last millennium. The variations in the proxies are not always synchronous, suggesting different triggering factors (temperature, wetness, windiness) for each proxy. This study also emphasizes that, compared to studies dealing with pollution using geochemical proxies, palaeoclimatic inferences from peat bogs need as many proxies as possible, together with highly accurate and precise age-models, in order to better understand climate variability and their consequences during the Holocene.